Patricia Cain’s work on the Riverside Transport Museum brilliantly captures a singular moment of the build: uniquely documenting the geometric complexity and structural integrity of the museum’s design – ZAHA HADID As Glasgow’s new transport [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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The Oshkosh Public Museum announcess MuggleFest, a month-long Harry Potter celebration on display July 1 to 31. The bewitching event celebrates the release of the final Harry Potter movie and (magically) transforms the museum into [Read More]
The Mingei International Museum presents In Their Own Words – Classic and Contemporary Native American Art, on view through Sep 5, 2011. The classic art of the indigenous peoples of North America is as diverse [Read More]
The Museum of the San Ramon Valley announces a special exhibit from May 14 to July 16, 2011, featuring the Centennial of California woman suffrage. It will focus on local women’s lives and provide programs [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg presents The Human Touch: Contemporary Art from the RBC Wealth Management Collection, on view May 14-September 4. Throughout history artists have depicted the human form. They have decorated [Read More]
The Art Gallery of South Australia will mount its largest exhibition ever this year – an Australian-exclusive survey, straight from London’s internationally acclaimed Saatchi Gallery. Exhibition open 30 July – 23 October 2011 . Art [Read More]
“The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art” will be on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from May 14 to Aug. 7. The exhibition features 53 works [Read More]
The Georgia Museum of Art will present an artist’s talk with Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir, in celebration of Women’s History Month on March 29, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium. [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, pPresents CHARLES LEDRAY: workworkworkworkwork May 15–September 11, 2011. The New York-based artist Charles LeDray, known for his diminutive yet powerfully resonant objects made of fabric, clay, and bone, is [Read More]
Mt. Washington and Pairpoint glass, which rivaled Tiffany and Steuben in its heyday during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, will be the focus of a major exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass. [Read More]
The Bennington Museum presents Grandma Moses and the “Primitive” Tradition, an exhibition on view June 1 through October 30. The Bennington Museum is home to the largest public collection of paintings by Anna Mary Robertson [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago Presents an exhibition of Work by Pae White, on view May 19–September 25, 2011. The diverse work of Pae White engages art, architecture, and design to heighten the experience of [Read More]
Telfair Museums announced that its executive director Steven High has been selected as the new director of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. High is expected to begin his new [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago Announces Fujinuma Noboru: Master of Bamboo an exhibition on view May 28–November 13, 2011. Renowned today as an innovator of contemporary basket artistry, Fujinuma Noboru did not begin his study [Read More]
The Bruce Museum presents Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo, on view May 14, 2011 – September 4, 2011. Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo features works [Read More]
Exhibition celebrates NOMA’s extensive permanent collection of African art, connects African ancestry of New Orleans The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of [Read More]
The German Historical Museum Presents On Living Photographs by Thomas Hoepker and Daniel Biskup, on view 11 May to 3 October 2011. Exhibition Panorama, Deutsches Historisches Museum The exhibition is a two-part display with around [Read More]
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center present the first museum survey of the work of media art pioneer Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). On view May 14 – July 10, 2011. [Read More]